REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, DENPASAR - Up to 33 foreign tourists visiting Bali were HIV/AIDS positive during 1987 to 2013. Coordinator of Bali AIDS Commission, Mangku Karmaya said then added that the citizenship of 16 of them were unknown.

"Timor Leste and the United States were with largest number of infected persons, each four man who were found HIV/AIDS positive," Karmaya said on Wednesday. Next, two men of France, and one person each from Australia, Netherlands, Canada, Ireland, Italy and Switzerland.

Karmaya added that first foreign AIDS-infected tourist came from Netherlands in 1987. Bali raised public awareness of HIV/AIDS since then, including to Indonesians and local communities infected by the virus.

In last 27 years people with HIV/AIDS positive in Bali has reached 7.291, consists of  3,459 people with AIDS and 3,832 people with HIV. 

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